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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not diagnostic; specifically, in petrography, a term, proposed by Zirkel (1893), applied to the phanerocrystalline texture of rocks when the mineral particles, though recognizable, are not specifically determinable without special test: opposed to *eudiagnostic.

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